Description The Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic.
In the early twentieth century, black Bahamians founded a town of their own, while railway engineers.
During the Civil War, a company of "Key West Avengers" escaped their Union-occupied city to join the Confederacy by sailing through the Bahamas.
In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and plotted political upsets.
Description The Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic